Art & Culture

"Not that I care much for the obsession with these prizes, I am fascinated by the choice of Gurnah over Ngugi for the Nobel Prize in literature. Gurnah is accomplished but obscure, I can bet my money that very few have heard of him or even read him in Africa," says Ikhide R. Ikheloa.

Abdulrazak Gurnah does not just give his readers a book to read but he bestows upon them a journey to undertake.  A journey into a people whose ways of life, whose histories, are unknown to outsiders.

Encountering Gurnah for the first time is like stumbling into an incredible landscape, the first impact of which cannot be repeated.